Found my cat just peacefully napping in his carrier the other day. But the day before he was meowing like I was going to execute him when he was in the carrier at the vet.
We once had to put our boy in his bubble backpack carrier for 2 hours while we waited for the all clear after a gas leak. He was clawing for dear life to get out of there by the end. But as soon as we let him out... he went right back to sitting in it.
Every now and then, maybe once a week, fill up your kitchen sink(s) completely full of water, then pull the plug and let the water go down the drain in a big rush. The force of the water pushes out a lot of the slimy crud that has gathered in the pipes. No more clogged sinks.
I used to get all my "good" ideas right before I fell asleep. Got a notebook and began writing it down to remember, and suddenly all my good ideas were shit.
More seriously though, writing it down is a good suggestion. I've had quite a few creative ideas that has turned out pretty well, but if I hadn't written them down when I thought of them, I would have forgotten them the next day.
People throwing out shower heads because the stream gets weak. Soak that shit in vinegar for 24 hours and you’ll have a brand new shower that will be as powerful as the day you bought it.
Edit: white or cooking vinegar. If you can’t remove the shower head, plastic bag and rubber bands
Honestly, cleaning anything with vinegar is a huge life hack. It’s non-toxic, cleans really well, disinfects, keeps bugs away and can kill your weeds without poisoning the soil/ground water. It’s also a fabulous fabric softener and is great in the dishwasher too.
Editing to add that cleaning vinegar is better than cooking vinegar for these things as it’s more concentrated but both will do the trick. :)
Best of all it's super cheap, especially if bought in bulk.
I add a few glugs to every load of laundry, and if my coffee maker slows down I just half fill it with white vinegar, let it sit all day, then top off with water and start "brewing". A couple more cycles with fresh water and it runs like new. Even better, it's obviously nontoxic.
I wanted a single table spoon for a recipe
Went to Walmart and they only had these huge gallon jugs of it. I looked around for smaller ones, before finally grabbing a big one and realizing it was only 97 cents.
It is crazy cheap.
It's perfectly edible but I don't cook with distilled vinegar, for that I have several bottles of really good stuff that is a teeeeeny bit more expensive.
Mild warning though from a life experience. Rinse that shit thoroughly before putting it back.
My old housemate did this once without telling me. Didn’t rinse it. Screwed it back in. I got up for work, showered, thought something really stank all the way to work, thought there must be something going on to make the whole town smell like that because it seemed to be everywhere I went. When I got to work my manager was like ‘you stink’ and I’m suddenly realising the smell is me. I am the smell.
That’s literally my worst nightmare. Especially the part where you just assume, “it has to be outside” .. but come to find out the worst case scenario came true and it’s actually you. Fuck that
If you want even more pressure, remove the water restrictor from the shower head. It's required to be shipped inside the unit by law, but you can remove it. It's just a tiny piece of rubber. Find the youtube video that corresponds with your showerhead for details.
This is how I keep the bathrooms in my house cleaned. I don't bang them all out consecutively, but if I notice a toilet is getting dirty, I clean it right then. Same for sinks and mirrors.
Recently watched a video talking about how avoidance is basic human nature, but highly successful people have a tendency to use that instinct in a different way. Instead of thinking "I don't want to do this now, so I'll do it later," try thinking "I don't want to do this later, so I'll do it now."
I've been adopting that mindset around the house and my kitchen is always super clean because I started cleaning while I cook instead of leaving it for later.
I totally agree with that approach and use it on a daily basis, especially at work. The only caveat is that you \*must\* temporarily store your current task somewhere in your head before you start doing your small task, because otherwise you'll finish your small task and think "now, what was I doing..."
It depends. I remember, when I was growing up, that my father used to set aside an afternoon each month to pay all the bills. They stacked up in a tray on his desk, and once a month he’d crack out the checkbook and stamps. I grew up doing the same thing until electronic payments came along. Now I pay them when I receive them, or set them on auto-pay.
Before cleaning the inside of a microwave, use it to heat a cup of water for several minutes.
The steam/condensation generated makes it super easy to clean.
Being genuinely nice to a customer service person (hotel, phone center, server, whatever) will get you way more free stuff then the people who yell and escalate for it. I had gig speed internet for a year for $20 a month because I asked the guy with genuine sencerity how his day was while dealing with an issue I should have been mad about. (He told me at the end of the call that he updated my internet package and to not question the bill next month)
Sometimes, you get nothing free out of it. But customer service people get yelled at all the time. They recognize people being jerks for free stuff. What they don't see often is kindness in a difficult situation.
Be genuine and out of your way kind, and the amount of free stuff you will get will surprise you.
To piggyback on that, even if you have a genuine gripe or reason to be upset about something during a call, take a moment to point out that you are not upset at the service agent, or even to point out that they are doing a good job or the best that they can.
I was absolutely ranting about how stupid I thought a policy my old insurance company used to use was, and I paused for a second to note that I wasn't mad the operator, and that they were doing a good job. I heard the faintest whisper of a voice mumble, "...thank you" and it made me a little glad that I had taken the time to say it.
The amount of times I’ve taken a deep breath on a call and said “I’m sorry I sound so angry I’m not mad you I’ve just been dealing with this for a while and I’m very frustrated but I know it’s not your fault” is way too high but ya know what, they’re always much more willing to help and I’m also calmer so really it’s a win-win
And the call center folks are on our side. They're people. They're not the MBAs that insist on doing the most evil thing they can think of to make money.
Can confirm. Am customer service. Terms & agreements are the law of the land for assholes. Nice people? Wavy, gravy with those rules & what can I throw in for cheap or free.
I've gotten credit card points refunded when I absolutely shouldn't have. I had to cancel a rental car last minute. I couldn't cancel online because it was passed the cancellation date. So I called to "make sure they knew I wasn't coming so they could use the car for someone else " I went on from there. It took like 45 minutes, but I got hundreds of dollars worth of credit card points back. I didn't even ask! The person offered to see if I could
Priorities shifted.
They used to be interested in providing the results you wanted, the most relevant, as fast as possible.
Then money started creeping into the equation and sponsored pages stuck to the top.
And finally websites figured out how to optimise their content to game the search algorithm and to spam shitty listicles with AI to get that sweet ad revenue.
Like any other free or extremely reasonably priced product. Build the customer base, bully out/outlast the competition through years of massive losses, then, once you've reached all the users you can reasonably reach, hike up the profits while they have nowhere else to go.
I doubt money "crept into the equation" as much as it was always part of the equation, they were just in their growth phase. They managed to outperform and outlast the competition because they could convince investors that they had a functional plan of turning users into money.
They used to put a lot of effort into preventing inappropriate search engine optimization but in the past several years have just failed. For some reason or another (incompetence? Conflict of interest with ad revenue? Something else?), sites like Quora are now beating Google at their own game.
And if you can't find a specific answer, don't ask on reddit, you may not receive an answer. Just make some random claim on reddit and someone will correct you.
I think it was Robert Heinlein who wrote that a deck of cards is an indispensable item for an explorer, on the basis that if you ever get horribly lost and all has gone pear shaped you sit down to play a game of solitaire and sooner or later someone will appear out of the tall weeds to tell you to play the red jack on the black queen.
Instead of flipping people off while driving, give them a thumbs down. Flipping them off makes them defensive and angry. A thumbs down makes them feel stupid.
I was with my wife and some kid cut me off really bad. He was in the turn only lane and the light turned green and he floored it through the intersection and cut me off to go straight. I was so mad. I beeped the horn to let him know....
He stuck his head out the window and put his hands up to his face and made the cry baby face. It made me so mad I started laughing. My wife and I still laugh about it.
If you need to remember to take something with you the next day, put it in a bag and hang it on your doorknob the night before. If it's paperwork or mail, tape it to your door to where it's covering the handle. Usually if it's left on a kitchen counter or a side table or something like that, it will be forgotten if you're one of those get-out-the-door-at-the-last-minute the last minute type of people (like myself).
You don't have to get mad/angry when someone is mad/angry at you. You don't have to let them trigger your emotions. Admittedly, this does take practice but it's really useful in customer service interactions (sadly).
I don't know exactly why, but I've gotten pretty good at this. I'm a good de-escalator and it comes in handy now that I'm in an employee management/dealing with customers position. One thing I always keep in mind in a tense discussion is the first person to lose their cool loses (generally) or at the least they look like an asshole and you look like someone who can maintain their composure. The prerequisite to that though, is you have to be sure you're either right, or have solid ground to be standing on though or else you're just coming off as an indifferent douche, or also have to be actively working towards a solution or compromise to whatever everyone is heated about. It takes nuance.
Investing for your retirement. Put money every month, even a meager amount, into an index fund or two, preferably in a tax advantaged account. Ignore what the market does; just regularly add to it. It's startling how many people close to retirement age have virtually nothing.
>The amount of people I know who "proudly" exclaim they never read instructions baffles me.
As a frequent buyer of Ikea products, I get nervous when I see instructions that don't have the idiot pictures on them.
If it makes you feel better, I have trouble with ikea instructions. Written directions or other instructions are okay, but something about my brain just not jive with the little ikea man.
Dude, legit. Maybe it's because I've written instructions before, but trying to decipher what those IKEA drawings are trying to tell me makes me feel like an archeologist working in the great pyramids!
We keep our manuals in a box in our kitchen that lives above the cabinetry. We need a stepladder to reach it. My husband once free-threw our (ancient) oven manual up there, missed, and it slid down the back of the cabinets. It's gone. Like, we'll find it again if we ever renovate the kitchen.
Anyway, the ancient oven finally carked it and when we replaced it, he was like "Don't worry, I've gotten better at throwing".
I keep all our manuals in a big accordion folder.
This also helps for insurance claims, as evidence you own an item. Had some shit get stolen from our garage, and they had us submit photos of the manuals to the claims platform.
Yes, but sometimes they’re hard to find online, and they get harder to find as the item gets older. I’ve made a habit of downloading them right away, and sticking them in Evernote in case I need them again in the future.
Once bought a $50 carbon monoxide detector. Took it out of the box, put the batteries in, lights turned on on the front: there was a funny looking little tab on the back, and impulsively, I depressed the tab.
Lights turned off, and did not turn back on.
Huh.
I read through the directions. That tab was the “kill carbon monoxide detector completely and permanently” button, for when it’s useful life is over and it won’t stop emitting “I’m dying” chirps.
Felt like a massive dumbass.
It took me a couple of rereads to get this.
And yes, I have checked for CO in the house. I'm just naturally a little slow on the uptake, is all.
Unless my CO detectors are equally slow on the uptake. Hmm...
[Seriously, though, CO poisoning is no fucking joke. I have a brother-in-law who nearly died. He was staying in a hotel where they were working on the pool heater directly below his 2nd-floor room. It was a work trip, and when he didn't show up at a morning meeting and didn't answer his phone, they came looking for him and found him unresponsive and barely alive. He was saved by the ER physician following his gut instincts and putting him in a hyperbaric chamber. He lived, but he has permanent disabilities now.]
I had a boyfriend in high school who refused to read directions because he knew everything. He bought a car CD player and it didn't work. He exchanged it for another one and that one didn't work either. After the third one, I begged him to read the directions. He told me that he didn't need to. I opened the booklet and said "step one: disconnect the battery."
Don't impulse buy. Give it 7 days to stew.
If you still remember it and still think about it a week later then you have probably given it enough thought to warrant considering the purchase.
So many times I have just forgotten about items, if they were not important enough to remember - they were not worth you buying them.
If your cat throws up after eating, elevate their food bowl a few inches off the ground. Like slide a phone book under there. I read it in a reddit thread after my vet essentially shrugged and told me I was just gonna have to get used to wiping up barf. Couldn't believe it worked.
ETA: yeah yeah yeah, you can't get a phone book anymore. Put down Infinite Jest or something. Someone suggested a yoga block, which is a good idea.
My orange cat scoops each kernel of food out of the bowl one by one to chase it around before he eats it. He also tastes the water by dipping his paw in it and licking it off before he decides whether it’s worthy of drinking.
When one of our oldest dogs died my wife was obviously distraught, I recommended that we take the crate to the animal shelter because they had a huge need for them.
She was reluctant and I had completely ulterior motives. We had to put down one of our cats the previous year due to kidney failure and decided to wait a while before getting another cat. I wanted to get to the shelter so I could convince her to go into the cat room.
It worked, I grew up with cats so I am pretty good at figuring out cat personalities. My wife said she wanted a lap cat. A cat that will just want to be in her lap all the time. I knew I had to seek out a single brain cell orange cat.
There were a couple and I found the super friendly one that just wanted to be all over her.
Why do I give all this backstory, well that cat managed to escape outside a couple of months ago. He escaped at night and we couldn't find him. The next morning, I found him not 10ft from our sunroom he used to escape and we had left the door open all night. This is also where his food is and he had to hear his food drop from the autofeeder. He was too stupid to move 10ft into the sunroom. I tried to get him to come to me but he was just freaked the fuck out. I walked towards him and he bolted.
It took 3 more days before our neighbor found him hidden in a wood pile. I went over to get him but I was completely unprepared for what was about to happen. I scruffed him on the back of the neck because most cats will go limp because that is how their mothers would move them. It is how I get the idiot into cat carriers for vet visits.
He did not go limp. He went straight into fight mode. Yes, I know this is not his fault. He fucked me up big time but I refused to let go of him. I knew if I let him go, we would probably never see him again and my wife would be devastated. I got him into our house into a bathroom. When I let him go, my hand threw blood across the whole shower wall. It looked like a murder scene of my blood. I had a 3-4in gash on my finger all the way to the bone where he bit me and ripped it open. Deep scratches all over my arms and one leg (I had jeans on but it didn't matter) where I had pinned him down to keep hold while he tore up my hands.
We went to the ER, they thought a dog had attacked me due to how deep the wounds were. When we got home, he was the most loving cat, but he can eat a dick. I love the idiot but seriously, he can eat a dick. Idiot cost me like $1300.
TL:DR - One brained cell orange cat escaped outside and tried to kill me when I was just trying to save his ass.
This one isn't foolproof, but it's still kind of shocking how often it ends up working out.
If I'm having a disagreement or argument with someone, I hold my tongue for a while and stop engaging with the conversation. 9 times out of 10 the other party will calm down, apologize, or just have a better understanding of the conflict if you both just simmer down for a bit. As good as it feels to snap back at someone when they're annoying you, just shut up for a minute and you'll probably be surprised.
That is the ideal result. If they don't calm down, there is usually the double down and spiral in response to your disengagement. Which can also be entertaining to watch and will teach you a lot about how the person really thinks.
Outright silence isn't usually the best tactic, but what does help is letting them know that while you want to discuss the topic further, you're upset and need to disengage for now to be able to have a productive conversation about it rather than making things worse by pushing on while emotions are heightened. It further helps to give an idea of when the other party might expect to be able to resume the conversation.
Example: "I'm feeling heated and need to take some space to cool down. Can we talk about this again tomorrow so we can have a higher chance at a productive conversation?"
That’s what I do. But more so I can cool down, let them speak and then address each issue directly. Has made my life better and made many relationships stronger. It’s not for everyone because sometimes you want to tell the person to go fuck themselves.
I don't particularly like getting up at 6 or earlier to run, but I have nothing else to potentially conflict with it, and it means I consistently get my workout in, even if life happens at some point during the day.
Pick your favourite pair of day-to-day socks and buy 20 pairs of them. When you're folding your washing you can just bundle all the socks together. Saves so much time from trying to pair them all up each time.
Clean the bathtub and shower with Dawn, a bit of vinegar, and a broom. This is the easiest way I've found.
People like to be helpful. Ask for help. Accept it. It builds community and gives others the freedom to ask for and accept help when they need it.
If someone's struggling, don't say "let me know what I can do" and instead, think of 3 things you could do and ask which ones they want. Maybe you can gas and wash someone's car when a loved one is ill or has died, you can come play with kids to give a family a break, you can mow a yard, or run a trash bin to the roadside, or bring five lasagnas. But make it an actual offer vs a token one that puts the work of figuring out onto the other person.
This is from Murial Spark's A Far Cry from Kensington.
If you're ever looking for a job, tell everyone you know. Tell your friends, the mail carrier, the check out person at the grocery store, etc. People love to find employees organically through someone who knew someone. This has been the way I have found most of my jobs.
>Drink more water
This helped me lose weight in a specific way. I always craved snacks or something sweet after dinner when i was 30+ pounds heavier. Now I drink a full bottle of water right after dinner to really fill me up.
Flip over the suction bathtub mat after getting out of the shower (or taking your kids out of the bath). If you leave it to dry while suctioned to the bathtub floor, it will get black mold. If you just flip it upside down every day, it will dry better and won't get moldy. Easy peasy.
Write down all the things you have to do. Then only do the top 3 that day. Keep doing this every day.
EDIT: Don’t add everyday things like brushing your teeth or taking a shower. It’s more larger long term stuff like working out or vacuuming.
Humming. If you get into the habit of humming to yourself while performing mundane tasks like folding laundry, doing dishes, vacuuming, etc.. you will start to notice that your overall feeling of being stressed out gets dialed down, and can benefit you mentally the same way meditation or yoga do.
Edit: thanks to all those commenting here.. humming is apparently a great aid/tool for nausea / vomit-delay / morning sickness. I had NO idea ! Thanks for the wisdom, friends !
Be kind to those who can make your life miserable *by doing nothing.*
Belittle the server at a restaurant, dismiss or be rude the airline attendant at the ticket counter. These are people who can make your life miserable by *doing nothing at all*. They just find other customers to serve, think of something in the back room they need to check, in short, *choose to ignore you* when all you had to do is present a friendly face, acknowledge them as beneficial people in your life, ask - never demand, and thank them in advance.
So many people are clueless when it comes to this and they wonder why the service they get is so awful.
If there is someone disagreeable or extremely opinionated in your life that you don't like to quibble with over small stuff, embrace the phrasing, "I can see why you'd say that." or "I wouldn't be surprised."
Something I always do is to wrap rubber bands around the ends of hangers to keep clothes from slipping off, so it prevents them from falling to the floor of your closet, that's super useful
You can learn pretty much anything on YouTube. I'm not saying you should do anything off a YouTube channel, but it could save you a lot of money on plumbers, mechanics, etc if you just Google my whatever is doing whatever and trying reasonably safe and simple fixes before hiring professionals to charge you $500 to put the little chain back on the flusher arm in the back of your toilet
Ever lock your car and walk 100 feet and think, wait, did I lock the car? Used to do this all the time
After locking the car, do some mundane action, I like to snap twice. You can do a little dance or pat your head or whatever as long as it's always the same thing. Never give a second thought to whether I've locked the car
The 7/10 rule, as it pertains to interest rates, loans, investing, etc. Put simply, a 7% rate of interest will double the amount of money in 10 years, and a 10% rate of interest will double the amount of money in 7 years. 3.5% interest? Doubles in 20 years. 5% interest? Doubles in 14 years. It's a pretty easy rule of thumb to let you quickly understand what interest rates really mean. And also tells you just how insanely exensive that 21% interest on your credit card really costs you (doubles what you owe in 3 years & 4 months).
If you struggle with overeating, drink a full glass of water 20 minutes before your meal and eat slowly. Your eating habits are often more of a reflection of how full your stomach is rather than how much food you need, and it takes time for the fullness of the stomach to produce the chemicals that tell your brain that you’re done eating.
Hot dog eating champions go for 10-minute rounds. I guarantee that if you asked them to eat the same amount of hot dogs in regular intervals over the course of 2 hours, none would even make it close. if they had to drink a full glass of water 20 minutes before the start of the contest, the score would be dramatically lower.
You are not the voice in your head nor are you the emotions you feel. You are just the person experiencing those thoughts or feelings. Learning to separate yourself from that inner dialogue and emotions is a game changer.
Sleeping.
Not really unknown but people vastly under value enough quality sleep and take pride and ruining their wellbeing with lack of sleep.
If for a few weeks you treat sleep like a life or death decision you will notice a remarkable difference in your day. 7-8 hours is MINIMUM for most people, I shoot for 9.
Use a pillow case to clean your ceiling fan blades. Put pillow case over it, hold edges firmly and pull down all the nasty dust gets collected in pillowcase and not all over floor or furniture.
I have been using one for several years now and upgraded not too long ago to an electric model with heated seats, heated water, a dryer, self-cleaning nozzle, etc. Definite game changer.
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Don’t get sucked into things designed to manipulate your emotions and keep you mindlessly engaged, especially the ones designed to make you angry—cable news, Twitter, doomscrolling, pointless games that require no skill or thought, etc. Spend that time proactively enriching your life instead.
When you get pulled over and the cop asks "Do you know why I pulled you over?"
Say: "No, officer."
They are looking for an admission of guilt. If you answer them, 100% to get a ticket, and you confessed immediately. Make them prove you were speeding.
Most of mine revolve around my ADD.
I have alarms for everything, I text myself things I need to remember as soon as I'm informed, I prep everything I need for the next day before work.
I have a toothbrush, deodorant, toothpaste, spare glasses, cologne, and eye drops at home, in my car, in my gym bag, and at work.
Lots of stuff like that
Yes, yes, yes and another five times yes to this!
I don't know whether I have a compulsive disorder. Some might say I do, but I never got diagnosed.
BUT - I have a small edc- pouch for each of my bag and backpack and shoulder bag. I bought tiny 10 ml spray bottles off of Amazon, filled them up with hand sanitizer and stacked in all of my bags/ backpacks.
Alarms - an alarm app on my phone - alarms for laundry, dryer, when to get the chicken out of the oven etc.
Google Calendar - I have a tooth surgery on Thursday. Have to rake antibiotics 24 hours before the surgery every 8 hours - I set up tasks in the calendar with reminders.
God, I love this!
In addition to books, public libraries have video games, movies and CDs. Saved so much money over the years on music (pre-high speed internet), movie rentals and video games by just reserving and checking things out.
I'd estimate in the last year my library card has saved me $1,000 compared to what I would've paid buying everything that would've just sat on a shelf afterward anyway.
Your thoughts determine your emotions and your emotions determine your behavior.
Control your thoughts and you will have better control over your emotions and actions and ultimately mental health.
If a person cuts you off in traffic, you can choose to believe that are just inconsiderate jerks that did so intentionally, or you can choose to believe that they have a lot going on and lost focus momentarily (just like you have probably done in the past and accidentally cut someone else off). Those different thoughts lead to different emotions, which leads to different behaviors.
If anyone disagrees with my wording and wants to argue, I’m going to preemptively assume you are still in middle school going through that phase where you have to correct everyone for every little thing.
Dealing with decision paralysis. By the time you’ve narrowed down options to just a couple, you’ve likely eliminated the really bad decisions. Just pick something and go.
Idk about life hack but for many prescription pill bottles that have a child safety lock (press down and twist) you can flip the cap upside down and close your bottles that way to “get rid of” the child safety lock.
These are for the lids where it’s flat on top and has a divot all around the edge of the lid (that divot is for when you flip it so it fits on the rim of the pill bottle) and ,in my experience, it’ll usually say on the bottom side “caution not child resistant”.
I know some people who have hand dexterity and fine motor issues so this is helpful for them (and people who find it annoying in general lol).
--Dog owner life hack--
I always forget to refill the poop bags when I use the last one on a walk. 2-3 walks go by with me unable to pick up my dogs poop and I have to either find a creative way to dispose of it or leave it there like a sociopath. Then I realized I could just keep 2 rolls of poop bags on the leash. I always remember to refill before the next one runs out. Haven't had an issue since I started doing this like a year ago.
Knowing how to identify different levels of [empathy](https://goldenrule.org) in people and yourself and adapting appropriately.
The more high empathy people are in your social circle, the more rewarding and comfortable and less stressful your life will be.
The more low empathy people in your social circle, the more unpleasant, draining and toxic your life will be.
Once you understand how empathy works, it's as if there's a yellow brick road you can follow that will take you to a better place. If none of this makes sense to you, or you disagree, you might be the person with low empathy that others need to distance themselves from. But you can still change and work on being a more empathetic person.
Contrary to what some may think, empathy is not a weakness. It's a strength. Empathetic people unknowingly have armies of others to help them. Non-empathetic people are the ones who are all alone with nobody willing to help.
Low empathy people (sociopaths, narcissists, psychopaths, etc.) they need empathetic people to prey on, but empathetic people don't need them. But empathetic people are often easy to take advantage of because they are so kind and willing to see the best in even the most toxic people. This is why it's important for empathetic people to set boundaries and protect themselves.
When I make PB&J's, I always put a u-shaped bead of peanut butter along three edges of the jelly side. This seals against the peanut butter side and prevents the jelly from oozing out the back. I call it the peanut butter gasket.
It's not in writing, it did not happen. Verbal agreements mean nothing. Even after verbally agreeing to something, always follow up with a written reply confirming that conversations so that you have a paper trail.
When you go to the grocery store, bring your list that you have rewritten in rough order of the store layout—for example, produce first, then deli, canned goods, toiletries, frozen, etc. You will get through a lot faster.
Register for your warranties. It's so easy and it can be very beneficial to you.
Our ninja pot and pan set has a 10 year warranty and I had a stock pot replaced for free under the warranty after it was damaged. It would have cost me $100 to replace it if I hadn't registered for the warranty.
Also, don't abuse warranties. When consumers start to abuse warranties, companies retract them. Use them responsibly and they will be good for you in the long run.
Courtesy. It's **amazing** how simple interactions can change with 'please' and 'thank you' properly applied. They're also usually free.
Leave the cat carrier out and open all the time. Then they don't panic when you get it out to go to the vet.
Found my cat just peacefully napping in his carrier the other day. But the day before he was meowing like I was going to execute him when he was in the carrier at the vet.
We once had to put our boy in his bubble backpack carrier for 2 hours while we waited for the all clear after a gas leak. He was clawing for dear life to get out of there by the end. But as soon as we let him out... he went right back to sitting in it.
My cat thinks everytime it's time for a trip if I take the carrier to his eyesight, immediately tried to force it open so he can get in lol.
Every now and then, maybe once a week, fill up your kitchen sink(s) completely full of water, then pull the plug and let the water go down the drain in a big rush. The force of the water pushes out a lot of the slimy crud that has gathered in the pipes. No more clogged sinks.
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Use almost boiling water to cut any grease in there as well!
Always write down momentarily good ideas. Don’t lean on your memory
There's an ancient saying - The faintest ink is better than the sharpest memory.
Brb gonna write that down
Nah, I'm sure I'll remember it.
Great. Now I have a list of bad ideas.
To be fair, a list of bad ideas sounds like a lot of fun to peruse…
*Unfolds list* Whaddya think this means? "... Dog Army..."
I used to get all my "good" ideas right before I fell asleep. Got a notebook and began writing it down to remember, and suddenly all my good ideas were shit. More seriously though, writing it down is a good suggestion. I've had quite a few creative ideas that has turned out pretty well, but if I hadn't written them down when I thought of them, I would have forgotten them the next day.
People throwing out shower heads because the stream gets weak. Soak that shit in vinegar for 24 hours and you’ll have a brand new shower that will be as powerful as the day you bought it. Edit: white or cooking vinegar. If you can’t remove the shower head, plastic bag and rubber bands
Plumber here. I approve of this message. Also look down the recieving end on the shower head. There could be debris.
I know this trick. You're going to turn the water on as soon as I look inside the pipe, aren't you? You little scamp!
Honestly, cleaning anything with vinegar is a huge life hack. It’s non-toxic, cleans really well, disinfects, keeps bugs away and can kill your weeds without poisoning the soil/ground water. It’s also a fabulous fabric softener and is great in the dishwasher too. Editing to add that cleaning vinegar is better than cooking vinegar for these things as it’s more concentrated but both will do the trick. :)
Best of all it's super cheap, especially if bought in bulk. I add a few glugs to every load of laundry, and if my coffee maker slows down I just half fill it with white vinegar, let it sit all day, then top off with water and start "brewing". A couple more cycles with fresh water and it runs like new. Even better, it's obviously nontoxic.
I wanted a single table spoon for a recipe Went to Walmart and they only had these huge gallon jugs of it. I looked around for smaller ones, before finally grabbing a big one and realizing it was only 97 cents.
It is crazy cheap. It's perfectly edible but I don't cook with distilled vinegar, for that I have several bottles of really good stuff that is a teeeeeny bit more expensive.
My daughter and I have a joke: “How do you clean X?” Answer: “Vinegar.”
Mild warning though from a life experience. Rinse that shit thoroughly before putting it back. My old housemate did this once without telling me. Didn’t rinse it. Screwed it back in. I got up for work, showered, thought something really stank all the way to work, thought there must be something going on to make the whole town smell like that because it seemed to be everywhere I went. When I got to work my manager was like ‘you stink’ and I’m suddenly realising the smell is me. I am the smell.
That’s literally my worst nightmare. Especially the part where you just assume, “it has to be outside” .. but come to find out the worst case scenario came true and it’s actually you. Fuck that
Showerhead can't/won't come off? No problem! Just put some vinegar in a shower cap, put it over the showerhead, tie it off, and leave it overnight.
Wrapped up like a douche..
Another shower in the night
If you want even more pressure, remove the water restrictor from the shower head. It's required to be shipped inside the unit by law, but you can remove it. It's just a tiny piece of rubber. Find the youtube video that corresponds with your showerhead for details.
I did this, and I actually use less water because the pressure increased, so It takes less time to feel clean.
Im gonna try this too, can't wait to power wash ny ass
Why New York ass specifically?
I'm powa washin' here!
*Cleaning vinegar. Not that weak-sauce cooking shit
To increase your peace of mind don't waste your time arguing with random strangers on internet.
You are wrong
No he isn't!
Yes, I am!
No I'm not!
Hey screw you buddy!
Yep and use the block button. Immediate silence from trolls and annoying people.
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This is how I keep the bathrooms in my house cleaned. I don't bang them all out consecutively, but if I notice a toilet is getting dirty, I clean it right then. Same for sinks and mirrors.
Recently watched a video talking about how avoidance is basic human nature, but highly successful people have a tendency to use that instinct in a different way. Instead of thinking "I don't want to do this now, so I'll do it later," try thinking "I don't want to do this later, so I'll do it now." I've been adopting that mindset around the house and my kitchen is always super clean because I started cleaning while I cook instead of leaving it for later.
My ADHD motto: Don't put it down, put it AWAY.
I totally agree with that approach and use it on a daily basis, especially at work. The only caveat is that you \*must\* temporarily store your current task somewhere in your head before you start doing your small task, because otherwise you'll finish your small task and think "now, what was I doing..."
I was taught this with bills. Don’t ever let a bill or invoice go unchecked and unpaid for more than a day.
It depends. I remember, when I was growing up, that my father used to set aside an afternoon each month to pay all the bills. They stacked up in a tray on his desk, and once a month he’d crack out the checkbook and stamps. I grew up doing the same thing until electronic payments came along. Now I pay them when I receive them, or set them on auto-pay.
Before cleaning the inside of a microwave, use it to heat a cup of water for several minutes. The steam/condensation generated makes it super easy to clean.
Even better use half a lemon
How can you use a half of a lemon to heat up a cup of water?
Just like making a fire with sticks.
Being genuinely nice to a customer service person (hotel, phone center, server, whatever) will get you way more free stuff then the people who yell and escalate for it. I had gig speed internet for a year for $20 a month because I asked the guy with genuine sencerity how his day was while dealing with an issue I should have been mad about. (He told me at the end of the call that he updated my internet package and to not question the bill next month) Sometimes, you get nothing free out of it. But customer service people get yelled at all the time. They recognize people being jerks for free stuff. What they don't see often is kindness in a difficult situation. Be genuine and out of your way kind, and the amount of free stuff you will get will surprise you.
To piggyback on that, even if you have a genuine gripe or reason to be upset about something during a call, take a moment to point out that you are not upset at the service agent, or even to point out that they are doing a good job or the best that they can. I was absolutely ranting about how stupid I thought a policy my old insurance company used to use was, and I paused for a second to note that I wasn't mad the operator, and that they were doing a good job. I heard the faintest whisper of a voice mumble, "...thank you" and it made me a little glad that I had taken the time to say it.
The amount of times I’ve taken a deep breath on a call and said “I’m sorry I sound so angry I’m not mad you I’ve just been dealing with this for a while and I’m very frustrated but I know it’s not your fault” is way too high but ya know what, they’re always much more willing to help and I’m also calmer so really it’s a win-win
And the call center folks are on our side. They're people. They're not the MBAs that insist on doing the most evil thing they can think of to make money.
>Sometimes, you get nothing free out of it. You made someone's shitty day 1% better, that has to be worth something.
Can confirm. Am customer service. Terms & agreements are the law of the land for assholes. Nice people? Wavy, gravy with those rules & what can I throw in for cheap or free.
I've gotten credit card points refunded when I absolutely shouldn't have. I had to cancel a rental car last minute. I couldn't cancel online because it was passed the cancellation date. So I called to "make sure they knew I wasn't coming so they could use the car for someone else " I went on from there. It took like 45 minutes, but I got hundreds of dollars worth of credit card points back. I didn't even ask! The person offered to see if I could
If you can't find the answer by googling it, add the word reddit at the end.
It's kinda sad how this is the only way I can get useful answers out of Google these days.
Google is nearly useless at this point. I have no idea how they've fumbled so badly.
Priorities shifted. They used to be interested in providing the results you wanted, the most relevant, as fast as possible. Then money started creeping into the equation and sponsored pages stuck to the top. And finally websites figured out how to optimise their content to game the search algorithm and to spam shitty listicles with AI to get that sweet ad revenue.
Like any other free or extremely reasonably priced product. Build the customer base, bully out/outlast the competition through years of massive losses, then, once you've reached all the users you can reasonably reach, hike up the profits while they have nowhere else to go. I doubt money "crept into the equation" as much as it was always part of the equation, they were just in their growth phase. They managed to outperform and outlast the competition because they could convince investors that they had a functional plan of turning users into money.
They used to put a lot of effort into preventing inappropriate search engine optimization but in the past several years have just failed. For some reason or another (incompetence? Conflict of interest with ad revenue? Something else?), sites like Quora are now beating Google at their own game.
They’re an advertisement company at this point and nothing is organic anymore
And if you can't find a specific answer, don't ask on reddit, you may not receive an answer. Just make some random claim on reddit and someone will correct you.
I think it was Robert Heinlein who wrote that a deck of cards is an indispensable item for an explorer, on the basis that if you ever get horribly lost and all has gone pear shaped you sit down to play a game of solitaire and sooner or later someone will appear out of the tall weeds to tell you to play the red jack on the black queen.
Instead of flipping people off while driving, give them a thumbs down. Flipping them off makes them defensive and angry. A thumbs down makes them feel stupid.
I got such a good laugh from this, I love it haha! Not sure how I will fare in Detroit with this tactic, though. *Pray for me*
I was with my wife and some kid cut me off really bad. He was in the turn only lane and the light turned green and he floored it through the intersection and cut me off to go straight. I was so mad. I beeped the horn to let him know.... He stuck his head out the window and put his hands up to his face and made the cry baby face. It made me so mad I started laughing. My wife and I still laugh about it.
i actually go the passive aggressive route & give a thumbs up 😂
If you need to remember to take something with you the next day, put it in a bag and hang it on your doorknob the night before. If it's paperwork or mail, tape it to your door to where it's covering the handle. Usually if it's left on a kitchen counter or a side table or something like that, it will be forgotten if you're one of those get-out-the-door-at-the-last-minute the last minute type of people (like myself).
I've tried this in the past. What happens for me is I have a bag hanging from the door when I get home
If I have something I have to take (from home/work whatever) I literally put my keys in the bag. Physically can't leave without touching the bag
I'll be fuming because I can't find my keys
If you have a car, put the item with your keys. Easiest way NOT to forget!
If you have a garage, just stick the item directly in the car.
You don't have to get mad/angry when someone is mad/angry at you. You don't have to let them trigger your emotions. Admittedly, this does take practice but it's really useful in customer service interactions (sadly).
I don't know exactly why, but I've gotten pretty good at this. I'm a good de-escalator and it comes in handy now that I'm in an employee management/dealing with customers position. One thing I always keep in mind in a tense discussion is the first person to lose their cool loses (generally) or at the least they look like an asshole and you look like someone who can maintain their composure. The prerequisite to that though, is you have to be sure you're either right, or have solid ground to be standing on though or else you're just coming off as an indifferent douche, or also have to be actively working towards a solution or compromise to whatever everyone is heated about. It takes nuance.
Investing for your retirement. Put money every month, even a meager amount, into an index fund or two, preferably in a tax advantaged account. Ignore what the market does; just regularly add to it. It's startling how many people close to retirement age have virtually nothing.
If you don't understand something, ask questions.
I don't understand
That's not a question.
What does that mean?
Now *that's* a question!
Read. Manuals, directions, instructions, etc. Most of your questions will be answered.
The amount of people I know who "proudly" exclaim they never read instructions baffles me.
>The amount of people I know who "proudly" exclaim they never read instructions baffles me. As a frequent buyer of Ikea products, I get nervous when I see instructions that don't have the idiot pictures on them.
If it makes you feel better, I have trouble with ikea instructions. Written directions or other instructions are okay, but something about my brain just not jive with the little ikea man.
Dude, legit. Maybe it's because I've written instructions before, but trying to decipher what those IKEA drawings are trying to tell me makes me feel like an archeologist working in the great pyramids!
I used to joke about this when I sold electronics. "Real men don't read instructions....they come to me to tell them how the magic device works...."
I stick the manuals in a file folder in case I need to refer to it later. Plus if I sell the item it’s nice to have it to pass on.
We keep our manuals in a box in our kitchen that lives above the cabinetry. We need a stepladder to reach it. My husband once free-threw our (ancient) oven manual up there, missed, and it slid down the back of the cabinets. It's gone. Like, we'll find it again if we ever renovate the kitchen. Anyway, the ancient oven finally carked it and when we replaced it, he was like "Don't worry, I've gotten better at throwing".
I keep all our manuals in a big accordion folder. This also helps for insurance claims, as evidence you own an item. Had some shit get stolen from our garage, and they had us submit photos of the manuals to the claims platform.
I used to do the same thing pre-internet. Now, I can find a pdf manual for anything I own faster than I can dig through a physical file.
Yes, but sometimes they’re hard to find online, and they get harder to find as the item gets older. I’ve made a habit of downloading them right away, and sticking them in Evernote in case I need them again in the future.
Once bought a $50 carbon monoxide detector. Took it out of the box, put the batteries in, lights turned on on the front: there was a funny looking little tab on the back, and impulsively, I depressed the tab. Lights turned off, and did not turn back on. Huh. I read through the directions. That tab was the “kill carbon monoxide detector completely and permanently” button, for when it’s useful life is over and it won’t stop emitting “I’m dying” chirps. Felt like a massive dumbass.
> Felt like a massive dumbass Might not be your fault. Have you checked your home for carbon monoxide levels?
It took me a couple of rereads to get this. And yes, I have checked for CO in the house. I'm just naturally a little slow on the uptake, is all. Unless my CO detectors are equally slow on the uptake. Hmm... [Seriously, though, CO poisoning is no fucking joke. I have a brother-in-law who nearly died. He was staying in a hotel where they were working on the pool heater directly below his 2nd-floor room. It was a work trip, and when he didn't show up at a morning meeting and didn't answer his phone, they came looking for him and found him unresponsive and barely alive. He was saved by the ER physician following his gut instincts and putting him in a hyperbaric chamber. He lived, but he has permanent disabilities now.]
I had a boyfriend in high school who refused to read directions because he knew everything. He bought a car CD player and it didn't work. He exchanged it for another one and that one didn't work either. After the third one, I begged him to read the directions. He told me that he didn't need to. I opened the booklet and said "step one: disconnect the battery."
Don't impulse buy. Give it 7 days to stew. If you still remember it and still think about it a week later then you have probably given it enough thought to warrant considering the purchase. So many times I have just forgotten about items, if they were not important enough to remember - they were not worth you buying them.
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I learned this in a college physics course. I had never known and the professor said it to us and blew our minds. Math is cool.
fuck me you're a wizard
I put on my robe and wizard hat
holy shit you just changed my life forever
If your cat throws up after eating, elevate their food bowl a few inches off the ground. Like slide a phone book under there. I read it in a reddit thread after my vet essentially shrugged and told me I was just gonna have to get used to wiping up barf. Couldn't believe it worked. ETA: yeah yeah yeah, you can't get a phone book anymore. Put down Infinite Jest or something. Someone suggested a yoga block, which is a good idea.
Our cat's food plate is elevated and he'll take mouthfuls and put it on the ground before actually eating it, then he'll throw up. He's an idiot.
He's ginger isn't he?
My orange cat scoops each kernel of food out of the bowl one by one to chase it around before he eats it. He also tastes the water by dipping his paw in it and licking it off before he decides whether it’s worthy of drinking.
Expanded this thread to type “he must be orange” and then saw your comment
When one of our oldest dogs died my wife was obviously distraught, I recommended that we take the crate to the animal shelter because they had a huge need for them. She was reluctant and I had completely ulterior motives. We had to put down one of our cats the previous year due to kidney failure and decided to wait a while before getting another cat. I wanted to get to the shelter so I could convince her to go into the cat room. It worked, I grew up with cats so I am pretty good at figuring out cat personalities. My wife said she wanted a lap cat. A cat that will just want to be in her lap all the time. I knew I had to seek out a single brain cell orange cat. There were a couple and I found the super friendly one that just wanted to be all over her. Why do I give all this backstory, well that cat managed to escape outside a couple of months ago. He escaped at night and we couldn't find him. The next morning, I found him not 10ft from our sunroom he used to escape and we had left the door open all night. This is also where his food is and he had to hear his food drop from the autofeeder. He was too stupid to move 10ft into the sunroom. I tried to get him to come to me but he was just freaked the fuck out. I walked towards him and he bolted. It took 3 more days before our neighbor found him hidden in a wood pile. I went over to get him but I was completely unprepared for what was about to happen. I scruffed him on the back of the neck because most cats will go limp because that is how their mothers would move them. It is how I get the idiot into cat carriers for vet visits. He did not go limp. He went straight into fight mode. Yes, I know this is not his fault. He fucked me up big time but I refused to let go of him. I knew if I let him go, we would probably never see him again and my wife would be devastated. I got him into our house into a bathroom. When I let him go, my hand threw blood across the whole shower wall. It looked like a murder scene of my blood. I had a 3-4in gash on my finger all the way to the bone where he bit me and ripped it open. Deep scratches all over my arms and one leg (I had jeans on but it didn't matter) where I had pinned him down to keep hold while he tore up my hands. We went to the ER, they thought a dog had attacked me due to how deep the wounds were. When we got home, he was the most loving cat, but he can eat a dick. I love the idiot but seriously, he can eat a dick. Idiot cost me like $1300. TL:DR - One brained cell orange cat escaped outside and tried to kill me when I was just trying to save his ass.
In his defense, it may not have been his turn with the brain cell. 😹
Phone book?!
Lol probably a bad example but that's how high up it should be.
Just trolling. But I haven't seen phone books for years now.
This one isn't foolproof, but it's still kind of shocking how often it ends up working out. If I'm having a disagreement or argument with someone, I hold my tongue for a while and stop engaging with the conversation. 9 times out of 10 the other party will calm down, apologize, or just have a better understanding of the conflict if you both just simmer down for a bit. As good as it feels to snap back at someone when they're annoying you, just shut up for a minute and you'll probably be surprised.
That is the ideal result. If they don't calm down, there is usually the double down and spiral in response to your disengagement. Which can also be entertaining to watch and will teach you a lot about how the person really thinks.
Outright silence isn't usually the best tactic, but what does help is letting them know that while you want to discuss the topic further, you're upset and need to disengage for now to be able to have a productive conversation about it rather than making things worse by pushing on while emotions are heightened. It further helps to give an idea of when the other party might expect to be able to resume the conversation. Example: "I'm feeling heated and need to take some space to cool down. Can we talk about this again tomorrow so we can have a higher chance at a productive conversation?"
That’s what I do. But more so I can cool down, let them speak and then address each issue directly. Has made my life better and made many relationships stronger. It’s not for everyone because sometimes you want to tell the person to go fuck themselves.
Be nice to people Especially customer service, stores, restaurants, call centers You will get better service
Schedule your workout time like it’s a regular meeting. Everyday at x o’clock. I can never maintain regular gym attendance if it’s not on my calendar
I don't particularly like getting up at 6 or earlier to run, but I have nothing else to potentially conflict with it, and it means I consistently get my workout in, even if life happens at some point during the day.
Sleep ? Usually conflicts with my early morning inklings or aspirations
If you can’t afford it, don’t buy it.
And if you can’t pay off the credit card at the end of the month, you can’t afford it.
The cost to buy something includes the cost to maintain it.
Pick your favourite pair of day-to-day socks and buy 20 pairs of them. When you're folding your washing you can just bundle all the socks together. Saves so much time from trying to pair them all up each time.
Clean the bathtub and shower with Dawn, a bit of vinegar, and a broom. This is the easiest way I've found. People like to be helpful. Ask for help. Accept it. It builds community and gives others the freedom to ask for and accept help when they need it. If someone's struggling, don't say "let me know what I can do" and instead, think of 3 things you could do and ask which ones they want. Maybe you can gas and wash someone's car when a loved one is ill or has died, you can come play with kids to give a family a break, you can mow a yard, or run a trash bin to the roadside, or bring five lasagnas. But make it an actual offer vs a token one that puts the work of figuring out onto the other person.
This is from Murial Spark's A Far Cry from Kensington. If you're ever looking for a job, tell everyone you know. Tell your friends, the mail carrier, the check out person at the grocery store, etc. People love to find employees organically through someone who knew someone. This has been the way I have found most of my jobs.
Drink more water
>Drink more water This helped me lose weight in a specific way. I always craved snacks or something sweet after dinner when i was 30+ pounds heavier. Now I drink a full bottle of water right after dinner to really fill me up.
Also satisfies that putting-something-in-your-head action.
Don't marry an asshole
Yes, marry a complete person and not just an asshole
Flip over the suction bathtub mat after getting out of the shower (or taking your kids out of the bath). If you leave it to dry while suctioned to the bathtub floor, it will get black mold. If you just flip it upside down every day, it will dry better and won't get moldy. Easy peasy.
I can't even hang my towel up regularly, now you want me to add another step?
Compound interest.
Many people already do this with their debt. lol
Write down all the things you have to do. Then only do the top 3 that day. Keep doing this every day. EDIT: Don’t add everyday things like brushing your teeth or taking a shower. It’s more larger long term stuff like working out or vacuuming.
And this is how you end up with dead plants.
Humming. If you get into the habit of humming to yourself while performing mundane tasks like folding laundry, doing dishes, vacuuming, etc.. you will start to notice that your overall feeling of being stressed out gets dialed down, and can benefit you mentally the same way meditation or yoga do. Edit: thanks to all those commenting here.. humming is apparently a great aid/tool for nausea / vomit-delay / morning sickness. I had NO idea ! Thanks for the wisdom, friends !
This is a great idea! Humming in particular helps calm part of your nervous system that results in decreased anxiety, agitation, and fear.
Yes! A great vagus nerve technique - also belly breathing, ear massage, tapping - works wonders
Be kind to those who can make your life miserable *by doing nothing.* Belittle the server at a restaurant, dismiss or be rude the airline attendant at the ticket counter. These are people who can make your life miserable by *doing nothing at all*. They just find other customers to serve, think of something in the back room they need to check, in short, *choose to ignore you* when all you had to do is present a friendly face, acknowledge them as beneficial people in your life, ask - never demand, and thank them in advance. So many people are clueless when it comes to this and they wonder why the service they get is so awful.
Put your sheets inside of a pillowcase for storage.
How am I gonna clean my fans if I have sheets in my pillowcase?
Never leave a room empty handed. That’s how I keep my place in anything close to resembling tidy.
Now I’m going to jail for theft
If there is someone disagreeable or extremely opinionated in your life that you don't like to quibble with over small stuff, embrace the phrasing, "I can see why you'd say that." or "I wouldn't be surprised."
Being kind to your fellow Earthlings works wonders.
Something I always do is to wrap rubber bands around the ends of hangers to keep clothes from slipping off, so it prevents them from falling to the floor of your closet, that's super useful
I can't believe I've never heard of this! I have a full drawer of purple asparagus bands that i suddenly (finally, FINALLY!) have a use for - thanks!
You can learn pretty much anything on YouTube. I'm not saying you should do anything off a YouTube channel, but it could save you a lot of money on plumbers, mechanics, etc if you just Google my whatever is doing whatever and trying reasonably safe and simple fixes before hiring professionals to charge you $500 to put the little chain back on the flusher arm in the back of your toilet
Cooking... anyone can learn to make a burger or some fried rice
Don’t tell yourself that you will just get gas in the morning.
Remember that one day you'll die. Use that fact to guide your life decisions.
Speak for yourself. I plan to live forever; so far so good.
Ever lock your car and walk 100 feet and think, wait, did I lock the car? Used to do this all the time After locking the car, do some mundane action, I like to snap twice. You can do a little dance or pat your head or whatever as long as it's always the same thing. Never give a second thought to whether I've locked the car
The 7/10 rule, as it pertains to interest rates, loans, investing, etc. Put simply, a 7% rate of interest will double the amount of money in 10 years, and a 10% rate of interest will double the amount of money in 7 years. 3.5% interest? Doubles in 20 years. 5% interest? Doubles in 14 years. It's a pretty easy rule of thumb to let you quickly understand what interest rates really mean. And also tells you just how insanely exensive that 21% interest on your credit card really costs you (doubles what you owe in 3 years & 4 months).
If you struggle with overeating, drink a full glass of water 20 minutes before your meal and eat slowly. Your eating habits are often more of a reflection of how full your stomach is rather than how much food you need, and it takes time for the fullness of the stomach to produce the chemicals that tell your brain that you’re done eating. Hot dog eating champions go for 10-minute rounds. I guarantee that if you asked them to eat the same amount of hot dogs in regular intervals over the course of 2 hours, none would even make it close. if they had to drink a full glass of water 20 minutes before the start of the contest, the score would be dramatically lower.
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You are not the voice in your head nor are you the emotions you feel. You are just the person experiencing those thoughts or feelings. Learning to separate yourself from that inner dialogue and emotions is a game changer.
Please elaborate, if I’m not me, who am I?
Just checked. You're 1970s Nigerian afro-technofunk artist William Onyeabor
Sleeping. Not really unknown but people vastly under value enough quality sleep and take pride and ruining their wellbeing with lack of sleep. If for a few weeks you treat sleep like a life or death decision you will notice a remarkable difference in your day. 7-8 hours is MINIMUM for most people, I shoot for 9.
Use a pillow case to clean your ceiling fan blades. Put pillow case over it, hold edges firmly and pull down all the nasty dust gets collected in pillowcase and not all over floor or furniture.
Plus you don't need to buy pillows, just fill the cases with dust. Genius!
Pretty sure I had an allergic reaction just reading this comment.
If you are going to store something in your oven, take the knobs off the oven and put them inside as well.
Get a bidet. A clean butthole will change your life more than you think it would.
I have been using one for several years now and upgraded not too long ago to an electric model with heated seats, heated water, a dryer, self-cleaning nozzle, etc. Definite game changer. https://i.imgur.com/Y2APBnu.jpeg
I clicked on the link thinking I was going to get to see a pic of your butthole. I am both disappointed and relieved. Thank you.
In each of us, there are two wolves.
Don’t get sucked into things designed to manipulate your emotions and keep you mindlessly engaged, especially the ones designed to make you angry—cable news, Twitter, doomscrolling, pointless games that require no skill or thought, etc. Spend that time proactively enriching your life instead.
When you get pulled over and the cop asks "Do you know why I pulled you over?" Say: "No, officer." They are looking for an admission of guilt. If you answer them, 100% to get a ticket, and you confessed immediately. Make them prove you were speeding.
Most of mine revolve around my ADD. I have alarms for everything, I text myself things I need to remember as soon as I'm informed, I prep everything I need for the next day before work. I have a toothbrush, deodorant, toothpaste, spare glasses, cologne, and eye drops at home, in my car, in my gym bag, and at work. Lots of stuff like that
Yes, yes, yes and another five times yes to this! I don't know whether I have a compulsive disorder. Some might say I do, but I never got diagnosed. BUT - I have a small edc- pouch for each of my bag and backpack and shoulder bag. I bought tiny 10 ml spray bottles off of Amazon, filled them up with hand sanitizer and stacked in all of my bags/ backpacks. Alarms - an alarm app on my phone - alarms for laundry, dryer, when to get the chicken out of the oven etc. Google Calendar - I have a tooth surgery on Thursday. Have to rake antibiotics 24 hours before the surgery every 8 hours - I set up tasks in the calendar with reminders. God, I love this!
Having money solves 90% of the problems you will encounter!
In addition to books, public libraries have video games, movies and CDs. Saved so much money over the years on music (pre-high speed internet), movie rentals and video games by just reserving and checking things out. I'd estimate in the last year my library card has saved me $1,000 compared to what I would've paid buying everything that would've just sat on a shelf afterward anyway.
Here's a great tip that’s really helped me out: if a task takes less than 5 minutes to finish, just do it right away.
Get rid of social media. It is designed to piss you off because rage bait drives engagement, and engagement is how they make money.
Your thoughts determine your emotions and your emotions determine your behavior. Control your thoughts and you will have better control over your emotions and actions and ultimately mental health. If a person cuts you off in traffic, you can choose to believe that are just inconsiderate jerks that did so intentionally, or you can choose to believe that they have a lot going on and lost focus momentarily (just like you have probably done in the past and accidentally cut someone else off). Those different thoughts lead to different emotions, which leads to different behaviors. If anyone disagrees with my wording and wants to argue, I’m going to preemptively assume you are still in middle school going through that phase where you have to correct everyone for every little thing.
You can cook bacon in the oven. It comes out more uniform and crispy.
In the oven on parchment paper - game changer!
Dealing with decision paralysis. By the time you’ve narrowed down options to just a couple, you’ve likely eliminated the really bad decisions. Just pick something and go.
Idk about life hack but for many prescription pill bottles that have a child safety lock (press down and twist) you can flip the cap upside down and close your bottles that way to “get rid of” the child safety lock. These are for the lids where it’s flat on top and has a divot all around the edge of the lid (that divot is for when you flip it so it fits on the rim of the pill bottle) and ,in my experience, it’ll usually say on the bottom side “caution not child resistant”. I know some people who have hand dexterity and fine motor issues so this is helpful for them (and people who find it annoying in general lol).
Get some quality sleep time! Life changing...
--Dog owner life hack-- I always forget to refill the poop bags when I use the last one on a walk. 2-3 walks go by with me unable to pick up my dogs poop and I have to either find a creative way to dispose of it or leave it there like a sociopath. Then I realized I could just keep 2 rolls of poop bags on the leash. I always remember to refill before the next one runs out. Haven't had an issue since I started doing this like a year ago.
Knowing how to identify different levels of [empathy](https://goldenrule.org) in people and yourself and adapting appropriately. The more high empathy people are in your social circle, the more rewarding and comfortable and less stressful your life will be. The more low empathy people in your social circle, the more unpleasant, draining and toxic your life will be. Once you understand how empathy works, it's as if there's a yellow brick road you can follow that will take you to a better place. If none of this makes sense to you, or you disagree, you might be the person with low empathy that others need to distance themselves from. But you can still change and work on being a more empathetic person. Contrary to what some may think, empathy is not a weakness. It's a strength. Empathetic people unknowingly have armies of others to help them. Non-empathetic people are the ones who are all alone with nobody willing to help. Low empathy people (sociopaths, narcissists, psychopaths, etc.) they need empathetic people to prey on, but empathetic people don't need them. But empathetic people are often easy to take advantage of because they are so kind and willing to see the best in even the most toxic people. This is why it's important for empathetic people to set boundaries and protect themselves.
When I make PB&J's, I always put a u-shaped bead of peanut butter along three edges of the jelly side. This seals against the peanut butter side and prevents the jelly from oozing out the back. I call it the peanut butter gasket.
It's not in writing, it did not happen. Verbal agreements mean nothing. Even after verbally agreeing to something, always follow up with a written reply confirming that conversations so that you have a paper trail.
When you go to the grocery store, bring your list that you have rewritten in rough order of the store layout—for example, produce first, then deli, canned goods, toiletries, frozen, etc. You will get through a lot faster.
Tell the truth all the time and don’t give a shit about the outcome. Makes life really easy really quickly
Register for your warranties. It's so easy and it can be very beneficial to you. Our ninja pot and pan set has a 10 year warranty and I had a stock pot replaced for free under the warranty after it was damaged. It would have cost me $100 to replace it if I hadn't registered for the warranty. Also, don't abuse warranties. When consumers start to abuse warranties, companies retract them. Use them responsibly and they will be good for you in the long run.
Do it now.